Israel’s military deployed around 100 fighter jets to launch a massive bombing campaign in southern Lebanon on Sunday, endangering tens of thousands of civilians and heightening the chances of an all-out regional war.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) characterized the wave of airstrikes as an effort to preemptively “remove the threat” posed by a purportedly imminent Hezbollah attack, but observers argued the Israeli bombing marked a serious escalation that could further undermine hopes of a cease-fire deal in Gaza.
“Looks like Israel is now escalating in Lebanon in a major way in the hopes of kicking off a major war in the north that has thus far been kept to more limited exchanges,” wrote political analyst Yousef Munayyer. “Just as negotiations for a cease-fire were reportedly advancing.”
Are they still defending themselves?
This is the end result of enabling a bully.
They’re not really trying to defend themselves, not to us. Preemptive attacks to what you do when you want to destroy other people, not when you want to defend yourself. But they are trying to justify themselves internally, because it’s not like every Israeli citizen is okay with killing everyone around you.
And it’s not the end result. It’s the intermediate result. Perhaps the end result will be far worse.
Israel is a rogue state.
so are its sponsors in the west
Israel has been bombing Lebanon for decades. Israel’s policy is to kill every non-Jew in the world.
Our “ally” is not committed to peace.
Holy shit, 100 jets into Lebanon? That’s a massive escalation and full blown act of war.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) characterized the wave of airstrikes as an effort to preemptively “remove the threat” posed by a purportedly imminent Hezbollah attack
You gotta love how they’re trying to spin this: Hezbollah has proudly declared that this ‘purportedly’ imminent attack was indeed very real and very carried out some hours later
endangering tens of thousands of civilians and heightening the chances of an all-out regional war.
Those ‘tens of thousands civilians’ have already evacuated months ago and the only casualties were three (3) fighters from Hezbollah and some associated group. Source : Hezbollah themselves
I wonder how people can keep reading this kind of propaganda and not worry why it doesn’t correlate with what international observers and even Hezbollah themselves are saying
